Editor’s note: Besides tracking technological advancements and innovations, our author is a Juilliard-trained musical ...

Editor’s note: Besides tracking technological advancements and innovations, our author is a Juilliard-trained musical ...

The tired cliche used by those advocating for mandatory data retention is that metadata is the "envelope" not the "letter". That is, it tells you who sent what to whom, where and at what time. Since ...

Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

Mark Rix is affiliated with Amnesty International and International Commission of Jurists. Privacy and individuals’ ability to remain anonymous are important ...

Even the most techno-phobic attorney likely could recite the often-used definition of metadata: “data about data.” However, there are important ethical and practical components to metadata of which ...

On Monday evening, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence finally made public the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order approving a program to collect metadata—that is, ...

Data generated when you do anything online or with your phone. It's not the content of conversations, it's the digital footprint like numbers and times left behind. What is the government doing? They ...

As recently as a few weeks ago, “metadata” was an obscure term known mainly to techies and academics. Broadly defined, metadata is data about other data. For the phone company, it might be the time ...

The security agencies that will most use stored telecommunications data under new legislation before the Australian parliament will not reveal exactly what data they want retained until negotiations ...